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Cornelius Nepos

Cornelius Nepos (/kɔːrˈnliəs ˈnpɒs, ˈnɛpɒs/; c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not far from Verona.

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Cornelius Nepos

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Cornelius Nepos (/kɔːrˈniːliəs ˈniːpɒs, ˈnɛpɒs/; c. 110 BC – c. 25 BC) was a Roman biographer. He was born at Hostilia, a village in Cisalpine Gaul not...

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Nepos

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nepotism. Look up nepos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. It may also refer to: Cornelius Nepos, a Roman biographer Julius Nepos, sometimes considered...

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Battle of Marathon

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Holland, pp. 187–90 Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades, IV Herodotus VI, 105 Archived 2022-12-30 at the Wayback Machine Cornelius Nepos, Miltiades, VI Lazenby...

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Loeb Classical Library

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The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but...

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Hannibal

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John Selby Watson; Marcus Junianus; Justinus, Cornelius; Nepos, Eutropius (1853). Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius: Literally Translated, with Notes...

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Catullus 1

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wrote. It is dedicated to Cornelius Nepos, a historian and minor poet, though some consider Catullus's praise of Cornelius's history of the Italians to...

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Iphicrates

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revolutionized ancient Greek warfare by regularizing light-armed peltasts. Cornelius Nepos wrote that Iphicrates was such a leader, that he was not only comparable...

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Lysander

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remains an ambiguous figure. For instance, while the Roman biographer Cornelius Nepos charges him with "cruelty and perfidy", Lysander – according to Xenophon...

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Titus Pomponius Atticus

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Julius Caesar but was not harmed following their defeat. According to Cornelius Nepos, he took care of Servilia after the death of her son Brutus at the...

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Tacitus

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father may have been the Cornelius Tacitus who served as procurator of Belgica and Germania; Pliny the Elder mentions that Cornelius had a son who aged rapidly...

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Alcibiades

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way of life". Central to the depiction of the Athenian statesman is Cornelius Nepos' famous phrase that Alcibiades "surpassed all the Athenians in grandeur...

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Cicero

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introducing the art of refined letter writing to European culture. Cornelius Nepos, the first century BC biographer of Atticus, remarked that Cicero's...

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Hamilcar Barca

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First Punic War, p. 157 Polybius 1.62.8–9 Diodorus Siculus 24.13, Cornelius Nepos, Hamilcar, 1.5 Polybius, 1.20.6–14 Zonaras 8.17 Valerius Maximus 1...

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Mago Barca

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brothers (Gnaeus Cornelius Scipio Calvus and Publius Cornelius Scipio) throughout 215–212 BC. Mago, in a cavalry ambush of Publius Cornelius Scipio, killed...

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Epaminondas

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(and possibly abridged) biography of Epaminondas by the Roman author Cornelius Nepos from the first century BC which, in the absence of Plutarch's, becomes...

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Wars of the Diadochi

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Bibliotheca Historica, XVIII 33,1–36,5.; Arrian, Anabasis, 1,28; Cornelius Nepos, Parallel Lives, Eumenes 5,1. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica...

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Adriatic Veneti

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the coming of the Veneti. Pliny the Elder (AD 23–79) mentions that Cornelius Nepos (100–24 BC) implied that the Paphlagonian Eneti (Heneti) were ancestors...

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Julia gens

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v. p. 227 ff. Greek Anthology, ix. 1, 7-9. Suda, s.v. Πολυαινος. Cornelius Nepos, "The Life of Atticus", 12. Suetonius, De Illustribus Grammaticis,...

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Thrasybulus

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dramatic Athenian victories of 411 BC to Alcibiades, but a few, such as Cornelius Nepos, pointed to the decisive role that was played in these battles by Thrasybulus...

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Centurion

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centurion named Cornelius whose righteous and generous acts find favor with God. The apostle Simon Peter is told in a vision to visit Cornelius, a Gentile...

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De rerum natura

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Tacitus (in the Dialogus de oratoribus), Marcus Cornelius Fronto (in De eloquentia), Cornelius Nepos (in the Life of Atticus), Apuleius (in De Deo Socratis)...

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Lictor

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Boëthius Caesar Catullus Cassiodorus Censorinus Cicero Claudian Columella Cornelius Nepos Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus...

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First Persian invasion of Greece

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the campaign force numbered 200,000, while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry. Plutarch and Pausanias...

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Themistocles

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either from Thrace or from Caria. However, Cornelius Nepos (1.2) describes her as an Acarnanian. Cornelius Nepos, Themistocles Libanius, Declamations 9–10...

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Political career of Cicero

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introducing the art of refined letter writing to European culture. Cornelius Nepos, the 1st-century BC biographer of Atticus, remarked that Cicero's letters...

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Cornelia gens

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dogs. Artemidorus Cornelius, another agent of Gaius Verres. Cornelius Nepos, a historian and contemporary of Cicero. Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor...

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